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    The end?

    Greg Terry did a video debunking the majority of what Putin said in that speech.
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    Anyone setup HomeAssistant with IKEA Smart kit

    The sensor i use is a "Haozee" usb-c powered mmwave sensor from amazon. It lets you set an activation range and timeout period. Although you could do it with an ESP32 and an LD2410 sensor if you fancied messing around with ESPHome... :)
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    Anyone setup HomeAssistant with IKEA Smart kit

    I was just typing that! Its ace for automating things. I have lights that come on when i sit at my desk and turn off automatically when I'm not there. I've got a small battery powered button next to my bed that i can use to turn the bedroom light on or off, a "double click" turns a fan on in my...
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    Anyone setup HomeAssistant with IKEA Smart kit

    I don't know what came over me there. i went all peculiar for a minute!
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    What's the bleakest, most depressive music you can think of?

    "People who died" by the Jim Carroll band.not the music, just the lyrics.
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    Anyone setup HomeAssistant with IKEA Smart kit

    I got into Homeassistant earlier in the year and I've replaced the majority of my light switches and my 2 main downstairs lights with Zigbee stuff (currently i have 19 zigbee devices running off a "SONOFF Universal Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus" attached to a raspberry Pi 4 using Zigbee2MQTT)...
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    Sultanas in curry

    Probably related to the invention of Coronation chicken in the 50s... I would imagine that's what curry was to parents of a certain age.
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    Moneys no object... . Which car??

    I pass a big house on the way to work where the owner has 5-6 older cars in a courtyard including one that looks exactly like that. I assume that's an 850 T5R ?
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    The end?

    I assumed it was because i hadn't posted anything apart (I don't really have a lot to say!) had no profile pic and i was following a Few NAFO accounts... so i didn't really have a "History" and was a new account.
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    The end?

    I followed him for a bit. then suddenly realised he'd blocked me. The only way i can view his posts are to not log in! (Sadface)
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    Tanganga - £1.2m release clause?

    Ah! I thought the name was familiar, i think he was featured on the Amazon series "All or nothing Tottenham Hotspur" .
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    What did people call their Grandad?

    Dads dad was Grandad. Mams Dad was Grandad <Surname>. We saw a lot more of my dads dad than my mams dad as he lived just around the corner whereas my mams dad lived about 30 miles away,
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    Has anyone struggled post retirement ?

    That would be really handy for me as the new ground at Farington is about a mile from my house. Problem is, i can't stand cricket!
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    Which bands/artists did your folks play when you were a nipper

    Mam used to love a bit of Shakin' Stevens. Dad liked the older rock and roll stuff. he loved it when jive bunny was in the charts!
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    How modern life makes us lazy

    Lazy is... fitting Zigbee lights and switches and an amazon echo so you don't have to get up off the sofa to turn the light on at the switch which is 6 foot away from the sofa. I definitely didn't do that. honest.
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